Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at AU$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Vance Palmer. See Australian Literature for more information about Australian authors and their works.

As a leading literary critic Palmer wrote reviews and presented a program called Current Books Worth Reading on ABC Radio. He also wrote books about Australian cultural life, including National Portraits (1940) A.G. Stephens: His Life and Work, (1941) Frank Wilmot (1942), Old Australian bush ballads (co-authored with Margaret Sutherland) (1951) and The Legend of the Nineties (1954). He was appointed in Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Literary Fund in 1947.

[edit] Winners by year

• 2007 Carpentaria by Alexis Wright (Giramondo) ^[1]
• 2006 Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Knopf/Random House) ^[2]
• 2005 Surrender by Sonya Hartnett (Viking/Penguin) ^[3]
• 2004 Slow Water by Annamarie Jagose (Vintage/Random House) ^[4]
• 2003 Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro (Giramondo) ^[5]
• 2002 Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan (Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia)
• 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Knopf)
• 2000 Out of Ireland by Christopher Koch (Doubleday/Random House Australia
• 1999 Mr Darwin’s Shooter by Roger McDonald (Random House Australia)
• 1998 The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan (Pan Macmillan)
• 1997 The Drowner by Robert Drewe (Pan Macmillan)
• 1996 Camille's Bread by Amanda Lohrey (Harper Collins)
• 1995 Dark Places by Kate Grenville (Pan Macmillan)
• 1994 What I Have Written by John A. Scott (McPhee Gribble)
• 1993 After China by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
• 1992 Double Wolf by Brian Castro (Allen & Unwin)
• 1991 Still Murder by Finola Moorhead (Penguin Books)
• 1990 Oceana Fine by Tom Flood (Allen & Unwin)
• 1989 Captivity Captive by Rodney Hall (McPhee Gribble)
• 1988 Holden’s Performance by Murray Bail (Penguin Books)
• 1987 Second Sight by Janine Burke (Greenhouse)
• 1986 Illywhacker by Peter Carey (University of Queensland Press)
• 1985 Antipodes by David Malouf (Chatto & Windus)

[edit] References